Meanwhile, a new wrinkle has developed. Now when I boot and attempt to startx, I got a horrible screen that looks like an old TV whose horizontal hold is not working. There are wide diagonal lines all over, no menu bar, nothing useful at all. Also, I can't get out of X, even with Alt-Control-Backspace. I have to open another console and reboot. I've run vxconf several times and have tried using vesa through VASM and have tried hand editing /X11/xorg.conf to replace the driver with vesa. No luck.

I'll see what happens with the new kernel and report on that. No point in sending the logs at this time.

I installed Beta 2.1 and ati card finally works! I used first option autoinstall and it worked great.I have tried every alpha and beta release. Using pcixpress card also with onboard radeon 200. I will pull card to test onboard graphics.

All is not well, however. I'm getting odd behavior from my mouse. It's a USB with two buttons and a scroll wheel. If I click on something, the click usually doesn't register and I have to hit Enter to activate whatever I clicked on. Yet it does drag and drop to move things like desktop icons around. If I click on something that has a flyout menu, I have to use the keyboard to go down to whatever I want and then hit Enter. So it works partially but not completely.

I ran the Mouse section of VASM and made the proper selections. So I'm almost there but not quite. Anything else I can try?--GrannyGeek

All is not well, however. I'm getting odd behavior from my mouse. It's a USB with two buttons and a scroll wheel. If I click on something, the click usually doesn't register and I have to hit Enter to activate whatever I clicked on. Yet it does drag and drop to move things like desktop icons around. If I click on something that has a flyout menu, I have to use the keyboard to go down to whatever I want and then hit Enter. So it works partially but not completely.

I ran the Mouse section of VASM and made the proper selections. So I'm almost there but not quite. Anything else I can try?--GrannyGeek

did you try running without an xorg.conf file?can you post back the lsusb output?